Real Time Evaluation of the GenCap Project

The Gender Standby Capacity (GenCap) Project is a roster of senior gender experts (GenCap Advisers) that provides surge capacity to Humanitarian Country Teams in order to build capacity for gender equality programming in all sectors/clusters of humanitarian response. The GenCap Project is accompanied by a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) project to assess the project's relevance, coherence and effectiveness related to the project's effect on programming; the institutionalization of tools and mechanisms for gender equality programming; and the use and quality of the GenCap roster. The final report provides an overview of the GenCap Project's achievements between April 2008 and March 2009 and presents recommendations. The assessment has the character of a real-time evaluation based on a mixture of methods including monitoring data collected by 13 GenCap Advisors, a field survey with country staff, targeted telephone interviews, group discussions, direct observation and desk research.